Indigenous use of psychedelic plants may have played a significant role in developing and maintaining spiritual, animistic, and religious beliefs; during the countercultural movement in the ’60s, the popularity of LSD may have been a significant catalyst in the proposed transformation of society’s norms and values. These examples appear to suggest that psychedelics may profoundly affect…
As a result of state officials’ long-standing failure to respond to… fentanyl – the potent opioid that’s driving the skyrocketing death toll – has dealt Oregon a particularly devastating blow. Among the provisions in the pending bill specifically aimed at young Oregonians are easing restrictions on distribution of naloxone in schools, decriminalization of fentanyl testing…
Retreat Guru, run by brothers Cameron and Deryk Wenaus… may be trying to save its own skin by taking over the Synthesis program… at $10,000 each, that’s $3 million. Lesley Clarke, the student, says Retreat Guru held a video call on March 4 [2023] in which the firm indicated it was on the hook for…
Do you think that people should be allowed to use these psychedelics outside the pharmaceutical-medical system [or Oregon M109 framework]? Or that current restrictions on their use should be relaxed? …in general I think it’s strange to punish someone for using any substance… the people who are taking these substances now tend to be well-informed…
The Oregon Health Authority used the Synthesis course as the template for its psychedelic… programme… at one point the Synthesis retreat facilitators tried to unionize, but instead they were shifted from long-term to short-term contracts. The first sign that things were going awry in Oregon was in early 2022; reported in Vice; that Tom Eckert –…
We decided to grow our own… My mom had received that first baggie of mushrooms as a gift from a friend… not long after that initial trip, while working as a magazine manager at a bookstore, I saw an ad in “High Times” for an at-home “EZ Grow” mushroom kit. It was $120 for a…
…the legalization of marijuana has paved the way for bills like this… “magic mushrooms” are fungi that produce psilocybin, a naturally occurring psychedelic…. The bill would decriminalize the use of “magic mushrooms” for people 18 and older in amounts smaller than 4 ounces. Original Article (KTNV)New state bill could decriminalize certain amounts of ‘magic mushrooms’Artwork…
The graduation ceremony for 35 students was being held Friday [3/10/23]…Tom Eckert… InnerTrek… Rachel Aidan… Synthesis… bankruptcy… …a dosing session at a licensed center… a couch or mats for clients to sit or lie on, an eye mask, comfort items like a blanket and stuffed animals, a sketch pad, pencils and a bucket for vomiting… typically…
Paul Stamets… US patent… covers combinations of psilocybin and lion’s mane extract, alone and with niacin, has been issued… is now the subject of a drug development push by Stamets’… Paul Stamets will be issued a… patent exploring the medicinal properties of psilocybin, a major psychoactive component of the Psilocybe mushrooms that now bear his…
City council meetings have become key forums for rolling back the drug war… Current laws must change, agrees the psychedelic movement. But what to replace them with is a hot debate. In Oregon [which] now regulates psilocybin as an… [adult use] tool… for example. Some Decriminalize Nature advocates opposed the measure because of barriers to who can…
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